Wriggle and Crawl
For our Engage trip we have had a great time exploring different habitats and looking at different minibeasts at Saltholme. We found lots of little creatures when we used the nets to go fishing in the lake. We found baby sticklebacks, caddisfly larvae, water boatmen, pond mites and many more creatures. We recorded what we found and worked out what there were the most of and played a game where we were newts to learn about habitat loss. We learnt lots and had so much fun!
We hunted in the outdoor environment to find snails. We then observed them closely and drew them, making sure to add all of the little details like their shell shape and pattern.
We had great fun listening to traditional English folk music as part of the work on our new book, ‘Ossiri and the Bala Mengro’. We talked about the music and chose how we wanted to respond to it. We listened, drew, danced and played along with percussion. We also listened to ‘Are you going to Scarborough Fair?’ ‘Oats, beans, peas’ ‘Dance to your daddy’ and ‘Sovay’.
Our pupils have been exploring the outdoor world as part of their ‘Wriggle and Crawl’ topic. They tried to figure out whether the things they had found were dead, alive or had never been alive and they used different kinds equipment to help them out.
We have been exploring the feelings and thoughts of the characters of our class text, ‘Ossiri and the Bala Mengro’, by creating “frozen tableaus”. We then pretended to be the characters and made speech bubbles, writing inside each one what we might say and how we were feeling.
For Year 1/2 celebrate this half term we took inspiration from our class text, ‘Ossiri and the Bala Mengro’ and explored recycled musical instruments. We listened and responded to music by Stomp. Then we searched our environment to see what we could make music with. We used a combination of natural and man made materials. The theme of our music was Wiggle and Crawl for our minibeast topic. Children used the rhythm of their names or movement as inspiration. The children created their own music then we combined it to make a collaborative piece of music.
